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(05-26-2020 07:01 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  We KNOW the 6% rate is incorrect

When you put it that way, you come across as trying to minimize or deny the severity of the pandemic.

Rather than simply reiterating what you have written previously, I would invite you to respond to the explanation that I provided above, which is that different results will be obtained, depending on how a Covid-19 "case" is defined ("cases" could be the % of the population who would test positive for Covid-19, or the % of the population who have Covid-19 antibodies, indicating that they had a true case and had a full immunological response).

The 6% rate (actually 5.8% at present) is the correct current mortality rate among confirmed Covid-19 cases.

That is an "operational definition," which is what is required in scientific research

The only other way to compute the Covid-19 mortality rate is to use various methods (that can also be defined operationally) to estimate the actual number of Covid-19 cases and deaths.

There are various estimates of the actual Covid-19 mortality rate, depending on how "Covid-19 cases" are defined, but most experts have estimated that the actual Covid-19 mortality rate may be closer to 1%.


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"United States

(Confirmed) Coronavirus Cases: 1,724,577

Deaths: 100,512

100,512/1,724,577 = .058 = 5.8%"

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

This interview of Professor Emeritus Cornell West (Harvard/Princeton/Yale) is related to both the Covid-19 crisis and the economic and civil liberties crisis that has brought out protesters in all 50 States this week.

Check it out. It is perhaps the most passionate and eloquent statement about our nation in a time of crisis that I can recall since Martin Luther King was still with us 50 years ago.

One of NY State's accomplishments has been to increase, markedly, the number of Covid-19 tests that are being conducted.

Interestingly, the increase in testing has been strongly correlated with a decrease in the number of new cases per day.


Additionally, the percentage of tested individuals who have tested positive for Covid-19 has been decreasing steadily as the number of persons tested has increased.

Thus, it appears that President Trump's worries about doing more Covid-19 testing were unfounded. The results from New York indicate clearly that increased testing contributes, steadily, to a reduction in the number of new cases.
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Pandemic season is over ya'll. It's riot season. Try and keep up.

(06-04-2020 08:56 AM)8BitPirate Wrote:  Pandemic season is over ya'll. It's riot season. Try and keep up.

So how's riot season going to affect our media deal?

(06-04-2020 08:56 AM)8BitPirate Wrote:  Pandemic season is over ya'll. It's riot season. Try and keep up.

lol...yeah---hard to see how a football game would be any worse than a riot when it comes to person to person distancing.

The number of new cases of Covid-19 has been increasing, especially in southern and western U.S. States, in the aftermath of reduced precautions and fewer citizens practicing social distancing and wearing face coverings.

# new cases yesterday: 22,268

# new cases today: 29,173

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Researchers have previously argued that containing the virus would be extraordinarily difficult because of asymptomatic infections, but WHO officials no longer believe it’s the main way the disease spreads.
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the head of the emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at the WHO.


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(06-08-2020 02:42 PM)smu89 Wrote:  Researchers have previously argued that containing the virus would be extraordinarily difficult because of asymptomatic infections, but WHO officials no longer believe it’s the main way the disease spreads.
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the head of the emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at the WHO.


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The Easter bunny is more believable than the WHO.

(06-08-2020 02:57 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(06-08-2020 02:42 PM)smu89 Wrote:  Researchers have previously argued that containing the virus would be extraordinarily difficult because of asymptomatic infections, but WHO officials no longer believe it’s the main way the disease spreads.
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the head of the emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at the WHO.


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The Easter bunny is more believable than the WHO.

No doubt...but hopefully they have this right.

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Breaking News: This could be very important.

Steroid found to help prevent deaths of sickest coronavirus patients

Trial shows dexamethasone responsible for survival of one in eight patients on ventilators

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Tue 16 Jun 2020 08.20 EDT
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A patient and health worker in a Covid-19 ward in Edinburgh. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

A cheap steroid has become the first life-saving treatment in the Covid-19 pandemic, described by scientists as a major breakthrough and raising hopes for the survival of thousands of the most seriously ill.

Dexamethasone is cheap, available from any pharmacy, and easily obtainable anywhere in the world. Investigators said the drug was responsible for the survival of one in eight of the sickest patients – those who were on ventilators – in the Recovery trial, the biggest randomised, controlled trial of coronavirus treatments in the world.

“It is the only drug so far shown to reduce mortality and it reduces it significantly,” said Peter Horby, a professor of emerging infectious diseases in the Nuffield department of medicine, at the University of Oxford, and one of the chief investigators of the trial. “It is a major breakthrough, I think.”

Prof Martin Landray, his co-chief investigator said the sickest patients could begin to be treated with the drug immediately. “The search has been on for a treatment that actually reduces the risk of dying. There hasn’t been one until today.

“This is a drug that is globally available. This is not an expensive drug. That is immensely important.”
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A total of 2,104 patients were chosen at random to receive 6mg of dexamethasone once a day (either by mouth or by intravenous injection) for 10 days, and were compared with 4,321 patients chosen at random to continue with normal care alone. Among the latter group of patients, 28-day mortality was highest in those who required ventilation (41%), intermediate in those who required oxygen only (25%), and lowest among those who did not require any respiratory intervention (13%).

Dexamethasone reduced deaths by one-third in ventilated patients (rate ratio 0.65 [95% confidence interval 0.48 to 0.88]; p=0.0003) and by one fifth in other patients receiving oxygen only (0.80 [0.67 to 0.96]; p=0.0021). There was no benefit among those patients who did not require respiratory support (1.22 [0.86 to 1.75; p=0.14).

Based on these results, the use of dexamethasone would prevent one death of around eight ventilated patients, or one of about 25 patients requiring oxygen alone.
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Last week, the Recovery team, who have been trialling seven drugs and will add more, concluded that hydroxychloroquine did not benefit patients in hospital with Covid-19.

Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, said: “This is tremendous news today from the Recovery trial showing that dexamethasone is the first drug to reduce mortality from COVID-19. It is particularly exciting as this is an inexpensive widely available medicine.

“This is a ground-breaking development in our fight against the disease, and the speed at which researchers have progressed finding an effective treatment is truly remarkable. It shows the importance of doing high quality clinical trials and basing decisions on the results of those trials.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/j...s-patients

From what I know of dexamethasone, and judging from which patients were helped the most, it seems possible that its efficacy in reducing mortality was attributable to its suppression of cytokine storms in the lungs. Steroids are often used to treat autoimmune disorders, and cytokine storms are severe autoimmune responses.

Great...cheap and available is good.

Aslo several antibodies being tested which apparently could be available much sooner than a vaccine and used as preventative and therapeutic.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/re...ail-humans

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(06-04-2020 08:56 AM)8BitPirate Wrote:  Pandemic season is over ya'll. It's riot season. Try and keep up.

This.

(06-04-2020 08:56 AM)8BitPirate Wrote:  Pandemic season is over ya'll. It's riot season. Try and keep up.

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N.J. coronavirus update: Potential red flag for Rutgers | College football struggles with COVID-19

Posted Jun 08, 2020

https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/2020/...id-19.html

As Rutgers moves closer to the resumption of sports on campus, other Division I schools are providing reminders of the dangers student-athletes face amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Introducing Rutgers Sports Insider: Sign up for exclusive news, behind-the-scenes observations and the ability to text message directly with beat writers

The Montgomery Advertiser reports three Auburn football players have tested positive for COVID-19.

Those players, who were not identified by name, will be self-isolated away from the rest of their teammates, who will begin voluntary workouts monitored by the team’s strength and conditioning staff on Monday — the first day since March 12 that the SEC is allowing such activities.

Last week, as man as five Alabama players tested positive for the coronavirus, according to BAMAinsider.

According to a report from CBS 42 later Thursday, none of the players who tested positive showed prior symptoms. CBS 42 also reported that the list of players included a lineman, a couple of skill players and one quarterback.

Also last week, three Oklahoma State players, including linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga, tested positive for COVID-19, according to The Oklahoman.

Wednesday morning, OSU senior associate athletic director Kevin Klintworth posted further details on Twitter regarding COVID-19 testing. "For the record: (OSU athletics) has tested over 150 staff/admins/student-athletes with 3 asymptomatic positives. All by (student-athletes),” he wrote. “Positives were expected and the plan for that scenario has been activated. We will be as forthcoming as possible on the covid issues.”

The Wall Street Journal reported last week Iowa State “announced one part-time student worker in the athletic department tested positive and is awaiting results for four symptomatic athletes on two teams who had come into contact with infected individuals, all of whom have begun 14-day quarantines.”

In addition, Marshall “reported three asymptomatic cases in two football players and one staffer,” according to the Wall Street Journal. And that’s not all.

At Ole Miss, where approximately 70 athletes returned to campus on June 1, an initial round of Covid-19 and antibody tests yielded three positive cases: one athlete and one staff member in Oxford, Miss., and one athlete not yet on campus. Those individuals have begun 14-day quarantines and the mini-outbreak will not delay voluntary workouts, due to start Monday.

(06-16-2020 10:30 AM)8BitPirate Wrote:  

The only D in Joe Rogan's diet is DMT

(06-16-2020 08:24 PM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(06-04-2020 08:56 AM)8BitPirate Wrote:  Pandemic season is over ya'll. It's riot season. Try and keep up.

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N.J. coronavirus update: Potential red flag for Rutgers | College football struggles with COVID-19

Posted Jun 08, 2020

https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/2020/...id-19.html

As Rutgers moves closer to the resumption of sports on campus, other Division I schools are providing reminders of the dangers student-athletes face amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Introducing Rutgers Sports Insider: Sign up for exclusive news, behind-the-scenes observations and the ability to text message directly with beat writers

The Montgomery Advertiser reports three Auburn football players have tested positive for COVID-19.

Those players, who were not identified by name, will be self-isolated away from the rest of their teammates, who will begin voluntary workouts monitored by the team’s strength and conditioning staff on Monday — the first day since March 12 that the SEC is allowing such activities.

Last week, as man as five Alabama players tested positive for the coronavirus, according to BAMAinsider.

According to a report from CBS 42 later Thursday, none of the players who tested positive showed prior symptoms. CBS 42 also reported that the list of players included a lineman, a couple of skill players and one quarterback.

Also last week, three Oklahoma State players, including linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga, tested positive for COVID-19, according to The Oklahoman.

Wednesday morning, OSU senior associate athletic director Kevin Klintworth posted further details on Twitter regarding COVID-19 testing. "For the record: (OSU athletics) has tested over 150 staff/admins/student-athletes with 3 asymptomatic positives. All by (student-athletes),” he wrote. “Positives were expected and the plan for that scenario has been activated. We will be as forthcoming as possible on the covid issues.”

The Wall Street Journal reported last week Iowa State “announced one part-time student worker in the athletic department tested positive and is awaiting results for four symptomatic athletes on two teams who had come into contact with infected individuals, all of whom have begun 14-day quarantines.”

In addition, Marshall “reported three asymptomatic cases in two football players and one staffer,” according to the Wall Street Journal. And that’s not all.

At Ole Miss, where approximately 70 athletes returned to campus on June 1, an initial round of Covid-19 and antibody tests yielded three positive cases: one athlete and one staff member in Oxford, Miss., and one athlete not yet on campus. Those individuals have begun 14-day quarantines and the mini-outbreak will not delay voluntary workouts, due to start Monday.

People's perspectives are changing, with major news networks not as interested anymore.

(06-16-2020 08:24 PM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(06-04-2020 08:56 AM)8BitPirate Wrote:  Pandemic season is over ya'll. It's riot season. Try and keep up.

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N.J. coronavirus update: Potential red flag for Rutgers | College football struggles with COVID-19

Posted Jun 08, 2020

https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/2020/...id-19.html

As Rutgers moves closer to the resumption of sports on campus, other Division I schools are providing reminders of the dangers student-athletes face amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Introducing Rutgers Sports Insider: Sign up for exclusive news, behind-the-scenes observations and the ability to text message directly with beat writers

The Montgomery Advertiser reports three Auburn football players have tested positive for COVID-19.

Those players, who were not identified by name, will be self-isolated away from the rest of their teammates, who will begin voluntary workouts monitored by the team’s strength and conditioning staff on Monday — the first day since March 12 that the SEC is allowing such activities.

Last week, as man as five Alabama players tested positive for the coronavirus, according to BAMAinsider.

According to a report from CBS 42 later Thursday, none of the players who tested positive showed prior symptoms. CBS 42 also reported that the list of players included a lineman, a couple of skill players and one quarterback.

Also last week, three Oklahoma State players, including linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga, tested positive for COVID-19, according to The Oklahoman.

Wednesday morning, OSU senior associate athletic director Kevin Klintworth posted further details on Twitter regarding COVID-19 testing. "For the record: (OSU athletics) has tested over 150 staff/admins/student-athletes with 3 asymptomatic positives. All by (student-athletes),” he wrote. “Positives were expected and the plan for that scenario has been activated. We will be as forthcoming as possible on the covid issues.”

The Wall Street Journal reported last week Iowa State “announced one part-time student worker in the athletic department tested positive and is awaiting results for four symptomatic athletes on two teams who had come into contact with infected individuals, all of whom have begun 14-day quarantines.”

In addition, Marshall “reported three asymptomatic cases in two football players and one staffer,” according to the Wall Street Journal. And that’s not all.

At Ole Miss, where approximately 70 athletes returned to campus on June 1, an initial round of Covid-19 and antibody tests yielded three positive cases: one athlete and one staff member in Oxford, Miss., and one athlete not yet on campus. Those individuals have begun 14-day quarantines and the mini-outbreak will not delay voluntary workouts, due to start Monday.

If they fully and easily recover, does this matter?

Know both a 38 year old and 82 year old who tested positive....recovered...no issue.

We have to protect / be aware of the vulnerable.

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(06-03-2020 10:57 PM)jedclampett Wrote:  One of NY State's accomplishments has been to increase, markedly, the number of Covid-19 tests that are being conducted.

Interestingly, the increase in testing has been strongly correlated with a decrease in the number of new cases per day.

SEE GRAPH ATTACHED BELOW "testing&newcasesNYS.jpg"

Additionally, the percentage of tested individuals who have tested positive for Covid-19 has been decreasing steadily as the number of persons tested has increased.

Thus, it appears that President Trump's worries about doing more Covid-19 testing were unfounded. The results from New York indicate clearly that increased testing contributes, steadily, to a reduction in the number of new cases.

NY State and NY City are politically created Slaughter Houses... So many live that did not have to be lost.

They just couldn't keep the political agenda out of it.

We have complete IDIOTS for a mayor and govrnor, and please don't get me started about the City Counsel.